Title II, Part A - Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund (Formula)

The purposes of the Title II, Part A-Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund Program are to increase student achievement through intensive, sustained, and high quality teacher and principal professional development; to increase the recruitment and retention of highly qualified teachers in classrooms and highly qualified principal and assistant principals in schools; and to ensure that highly qualified and experienced teachers are equitably distributed to high poverty and minority students buildings, classrooms and districts across NYS (at rates equal to, or greater than, low-poverty and non-minority students).

AUTHORITY:

Federal Statute: No Child Left Behind Act PL 107-110

Federal Regulation:

State Statute:

State Regulation:

FUNDING SOURCE(S):

State-

Federal- 100%

Special Revenue-

Total- $174.9m

NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS SERVED: formula allocation provided to all NYS Districts and Charter Schools; and district allocations include equitable participation portion for non-public schools